Rail-joint.



No. 886,259. I PATENTED APR. 28, 1908. 0. G. SKILES.

RAIL JOINT.

APPLICATION FILED NOV. 21. 1907.

W/TZVESSES baa/ 5 f f/f? SKI/796 and State of Pennsylvania, have invented -ends of the rails are vertically supported ally; and in the claim appended hereto I CHARLES GRIFFETTE SKILES, OF MASONTOWN, PENNSYLVANIA.

RAIL-JOINT.

b ecif .ation of Letters Patent.

Patented April 28, 1908.

Application fileC November 21, 1907. Serial No. 403,211.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, CHARLES GRIFFETTE SxiLns, a citizen of the United States, residing at Masontown, in the county of Fayette certain new and useful Improvements in Rail-Joints; and I do hereby declare the following, to be a full, clear, and exact descri tion of the invention, such as will enab e others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

For the meeting ends of railroad rails I have produced an improved construction with a continuous tread of the rail and in which the end of each rail is firmly supported one upon the other and braced laterally at the tread and by a base extensi on which projects from the abutting end of one rail section beneath the abutting end of. the other rail section and serves as the means of spiking the rail ends together and to the rail cross-tie and thereby dispensing with the usual fish-plates. In this improved construction it is important to note that the upon each other at three separate and distinct points, that is, at the tread, at the base and at the web between the tread and the base and that the flanges of one rail serve to fasten the rail ends together while a longitudinal baserib serves to brace the ends laterwill point out the precise novelty in. tll0111t construction in connection with the accompanying drawings,in which,-

Figure 1 shows in perspective a rail-joint as it is secured to a cross-tie by my improve ment. Fig. 2 is a longitudinal section of the same. Fig. 3 shows in perspective the construction of the two oint forming ends of the rails the ends of the rails being seen separated for that purpose.

The end of one of the rails at its tread is formedwith a recess 1, open at the end and from which open end the web of the rail extends horizontally with a fiat surface 2, about an inch from the base of the tread. About a half inch below this flat surface the end of the web is formed with a vertical recess 3, which extends to the base and flanges of the rail forming thereby an overhanging horizontal shoulder 4, between thebase of the tread and the base of the rail, the bottom of which is formed with a recess 5, the full area of the base. The meeting end of the other rail section is formed with a tread extension 6, ad apted to fit the tread recess and below this extension 6, the tread forms an overhanging end 7,- adapted to iit and rest upon the fiat surface 2; and-below this-oven hanging tread end 7, the web has a recess 8, forming a horizontal shoulder 15, and adapted to receive the overhanging shouldered part 4, and belowthis web recess 8, the web and base part 9, is adapted to fit the vertical recess 3, below the overhanging shouldered web-part 4, of the other rail-section. Fitting the base recess 5, is a corresponding base extension 10, of the other rail section and to which the rail section having the recessed tread is secured by spikes 11, "driven through the fiangei12, of one rail section into and through the base-extension 10, of the other railsection andinto the cross-tie of the rails. The novelty and importance of this construction is, that -'it provides a continuous tread having an interlocking lateral brace, an interlocking vertical web support and a base spiked fastening support for the ends of the rails.

To relieve the fastening spikes of lateral strain and to laterally brace the base of the interlocking ends of the rails, the base extension 10, is'formedwith a longitudinal rib 13, and the meeting rail end at its base is formed with agroove 14, adapted to receive the rib, so that between the tread and the base-rib, meeting ends of the rails are supported one upon .theother at the base extension 2, of the tread, and at the web shoulder 15, and at the base extension 10 The importance of the web recess 8, its shoulder 15, and the overhanging shoulder 4,. having its seat on the shoulder 15, is that they relieve the base extension 10, of undue pressure from the weight of the. strain which, otherwise, would tend to bend or break off the spiked extension 10, as the train passes from the end-of one rail upon the other, so that while the web support serves as a protection for the fastening base extension, the rib 13, forms a lateral brace for the meeting ends of the rails and increases the strength of the extension and thereby forms an under flange fastenin of one rail for the over flange fastening of the other rail.

I claim:

1. In a rail-j oint, a member having an end tread recess, a support 2, formed by the web on a level with the base of the tread and projecting fromits end, the web having an end bottom recess; the other member having a tread extension adapted to fit the tread-recess. and a recess below said tread extension,

I formed in the web and forming a shoulder 15,

registering with the shoulder 4, the end of the base of said last mentioned member having an extension registering with the baserecess of the other member, spikes driven through the flan es of one reil section into and through the base extension of the other rail-section and into the rail-tie, seid'base extension having a brace-rib registering with a groove in the base recess of the other rail.

2. In a rail-joint. a member having an end tread-recess, a support 2, formed by the web on a level with the base of the tread and proj ecting from its end, the web having a recess 3, below said support forming e shoulder 4,

the other member having a tread extension adaptedto fit the tread recess, and a tread extension adapted to rest u on said web support 2, th e'said lest namer tread extension overhanging a recess 8, formed in the web and forming a shoulder 15, registering with the web shoulder 4, whereby the rail ends are supported upon the web at two points, and

means whereby the mils are secured together at the base of the joint.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

itnessesz M. F. ll. llxmum, ii. llOWARI). 

